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ebingdom | 3 years ago

> I wish that all language design went through a filter where every character mattered like the designer was in an episode of Squid Game.

Yes, I totally support this! Coming from languages like Haskell, most languages look so unnecessarily noisy to me. Cut the fat!

> Anyone who proposes a way to minimize Lisp parentheses, who hasn't introduced a symbol for missing outline levels, is just pulling out chunks and hasn't used their system to write thousands of lines of code.

What are outline levels? I tried Googling it but didn't find anything.

> C syntax is ground glass in my eyes.

Is that a good thing? I'm not sure what you mean by it.

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pxc|3 years ago

I think they mean that looking at it is like getting lots of tiny, ground-up pieces of glass in their eyeballs.